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Aunt : (noun)
1: the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
[syn: auntie, aunty] [ant: uncle]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Aunt : \Aunt\, n. [OF. ante, F. tante, L. amita father's sister.
Cf. Amma.]
1. The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to
nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
Note: Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of
endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related.
2. An old woman; and old gossip. [Obs.] --Shak.
3. A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] --Shak.
Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a
pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying
to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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AUNT, domestic relations. The sister of one's father or mother; she is a
relation in the third degree. Vide 2 Com. Dig. 474 Dane's Ab. c. 126, a. 3.
Sec. 4.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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